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The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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We don't defeat evil by becoming evil. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant. ↗

— Chuck Close

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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. ↗

— Brian Clough

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I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out. ↗

— Glenn Close

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Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world. ↗

— Ron Suskind

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We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors. ↗

— Glenn Close

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I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

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